I really wanted to wrap up work on this cardigan before the Nihon Vogue program started last weekend but kept running into trouble with the buttonholes. My last and only encounter with buttonholes was much different. This 1×1 corrugated rib is much harder to work than garter stitch. My initial plan was to make the buttonholes that are three stitches long but that turned out too tight. Next I’ll try four stitches.
After this weekend I’ve been converted from a one-project-at-a-time knitter to a multiple project knitter. The MFA Nihon Vogue Certificate Program with Jean Wong started last weekend and within two days I had two new projects started. We started a top down raglan pullover (green) and drew a plan for a pullover vest (grey). The key to surviving the weekend (at least for me) was to stick with good old stockinette stitch thus avoiding headaches caused by needing to match repeats.
From here on out it will be a game of catch up. I need to finish the Kauni cardigan, the Angel Lace shawl and manage to get my homework done before next months class.
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Oh, how exciting!
“Good learning” to you in the Nihon Vogue class. Done workshop style, as opposed to correspondence?
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it’s really looking good … I haven’t blogged for a while, but for any of your nyc readers out there, KAUNI has arrived in manhattan! I’m going to be “teaching” a class in the cardi at some point during the next three months –
and you’re such an enabler – I’m also going to start the angel lace shawl 😉
keep up the good work –
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Kauni is looking super fab! If you think of it can you bring it Sunday?
Between you and Karen, you have me excited to get started on the projects! That is once I get my pattern drawn up for the vest! Yikes.
Thankfully I think I’ll be able to get up to speed with your help since I missed the first session!
Is there anything in Jean’s video I should review? I brought her dvd’s with me on the trip….
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Oh, it’s a fast and slippery slope from here . . . next month you’ll have a THIRD project for Nihon Vogue to knit on simultaneously. Then a FOURTH! (Evil laugh) Where will it all end?!
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Welcome to the madness of the multiple projects world where the rest of us reside! At least we can commiserate–my Kauni may be one armed for quite awhile to come!
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I’m trying to figure out how much Kauni is needed for Ruth’s sweater. I was just scrolling through your archives, & I apologize if I overlooked it, but would you mind letting us know (again?) how much yarn you purchased & for what size of sweater? Thanks.
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Hi Samina,
I’m making the medium sized one and purchased 520grams. I’ll have more than enough. You can see the some of remaining yarn in the photo above plus I have a few other smaller balls.
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That’s great that Kauni has arrived in the U.S.! I’m enjoying watching your sweater grow. Here’s a plug for Astrid’s Dutch Obsessions: I ordered 480 g of Kauni from her and it arrived in two weeks. Her prices were reasonable and the service was great. She was out of the bright colorway, and I fell in love with the blue/green one, so I’m going to try that with Ruth’s sweater. Not sure if it’ll work the same way, but I’ll give it a try.
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I share your discontent with buttonholes, and I just did some in a seed-stitch buttonband. For the first time in knitting, I used the buttonhole stitch (embroidery) to tighten them up using silk buttonhole twist. I made these in a sweater knit from Silk Garden, and so the buttonhole twist looked like the silk squiggles in the yarn. I’m going to try this again when I use smoother yarn, and perhaps I can get something that seems more professional. I also signed up for the class in buttonholes at Stitches East, in the hope that I can do better. I think the ones I did are ok, but they’re not as polished as I’d like
That Nihon Vogue program seems great.
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Glancing at your sidebar, I just have to ask, shouldn’t that be In Purlgatory? (Running and hiding…)
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Alison,
I like that – “purlgatory”.
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Ok this being my first year of knitting (35 years crochet)i shouldn’t be too hard on myself but the ONLY thing that i have tried in the past year that i could not get was fair isle…but i HAVE to get it because i LOVE this pattern…i am a rainbow kind of girl and i NEED to make this pattern…beautiful job…just gorgeous.
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I still marvel at the beauty of your cardigan!
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Great sweater- I can’t wait to order the yarn. I am in Indiana so there is no kauni around here. I love the new 4 seasons pattern Ruth has on her blog. I plan to work the sweater in the philosopher 2 handed method- do you see a problem doing it this way instead of stranding?
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Tonia,
What’s the philosopher 2 handed method? Do they “weave” stitches often? There’s no need to do that with this sweater. Just let the unused yarn float across the back.
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